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Eitan P. Fishbane
Eitan Fishbane is Assistant Professor of Jewish Religious Thought at the Los Angeles School of HUC-JIR. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, and specializes in the study of medieval Jewish mysticism. His specific research interests include: techniques of contemplative practice; the transmission of kabbalistic traditions and the perception of authority; autobiography, testimony, and the construction of the self; narrative and poetics in the Zohar. At HUC, Dr. Fishbane teaches a range of core and elective courses in Jewish religious thought from the Middle Ages through the modern period, with topics including historical theology, philosophy, exegesis, Kabbalah, and Hasidism. As part of the close cooperation between HUC-JIR/Los Angeles and the University of Southern California, Dr. Fishbane also teaches a course on the literature of the spiritual life to USC undergraduates.
Education
- Ph.D., Brandeis University (2003)
Publications
- "Tears of Disclosure: The Role of Weeping in Zoharic Narrative." The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
11:1 (2002): 25-47.
- "Mystical Contemplation and the Limits of the Mind: The Case of Sheqel ha-Qodesh." The Jewish Quarterly Review 93:1-2
(2002): 1-27.
- "Authority, Tradition, and the Creation of Meaning in Medieval Kabbalah: Isaac of Acre's Illumination of the Eyes." Journal of
the American Academy of Religion 72:1 (2004): 59-95.
- "Jewish Mystical Hermeneutics: On the Work of Moshe Idel." Forthcoming in The Journal of Religion (January, 2005).
- Review of Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish, and Joseph W. Goering, eds., With Reverence for the Word: Medieval
Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), forthcoming in The
Jewish Quarterly Review.
- "Mind and Body: Healing and Spiritual Process in an Early Hasidic Text." Forthcoming in William Cutter, ed., Healing and the
Jewish Imagination (Jewish Lights Publishing).
Current Work in Progress
- Book-length project: As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist.
- Book-length project in research phase: Constructions of the Self in Jewish Mystical Literature.
Selected Lecture Titles for Congregational Teaching
- What is Jewish Mysticism? - Understanding the Kabbalah
- Shabbat as Spiritual Transformation in Jewish Mysticism
- Striving Toward Kavvanah: The Mystical Experience of Prayer in Kabbalah and Hasidism
- Layers of Torah: A Path to God In Jewish Mysticism
- Beyond the Ego: Mysticism and Ethics in Judaism
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